We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be.
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.